The Singularity and its Discontents
Will spaceships and Dyson spheres make us happy?
Animal Objects: essays by Brandon Wilson
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Consumption Must Flow
The fallout from AI’s collision with the labor force
The Leverage Theory of History
What really drives history?
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The Leverage Theory of History
What really drives history?
2026 AI Predictions
A galaxy brain forecast for the ages
Schleppy AGI
Why powerful AI might arrive sooner than we think
On Randomness
Is the universe, at bottom, random?
Who Controls the Robot Army?
The American founders feared standing armies
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How To Forecast AGI
Compute, not intuition, should guide AGI timelines
Are Language Models Human Emulations?
What blackmail behaviors reveal about the nature of LLMs
Sam Altman at TED: A Takeaway I Keep Coming Back to
Why no one is steering this ship
AI Risk and the Banality of Evil
We need safety designs that assume full access to model weights
‘Vibe Coding’ Signals the End of Software Programmers
Synergy or substitute?
When Machines Compete
The Darwinian shift reshaping capitalism
OpenAI’s Charter
You may be surprised at their stance on the AGI arms race
The Product Lifecycle of Human Labor
Will humans become an idle resource?
2025 AI Predictions
Overall, I think 2025 will be the year the zeitgeist shifts
Consumption Must Flow
The fallout from AI’s collision with the labor force
What is a Computer?
Thoughts on the computer on the eve of AGI
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
A meditation on the culmination of the computer revolution
The Origin of the Attention Mechanism in LLMs
Dzmitry Bahdanau explains how he arrived at the idea
The Big Opportunity in AI: Legacy Industry
The entire economy is going to be remade
The Singularity and its Discontents
Will spaceships and Dyson spheres make us happy?
The Real Risk of AGI: Geopolitical Disequilibria
Ultimately, the risks of AGI are not technical but human
Hollywood in a Laptop
What happens if anyone can make a blockbuster?
The Twilight of Labor
Technology and the human ego